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Portugal

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8-12NOV2004 Portugal, even the Algarve is not nearly as touristed as Southern Spain.  The roads are great for motorcycling and the food is good.  Ordering food is a bit of a challenge.  My Spanish is good enough for menus but my Portuguese is non-existent.  So, in some cases I just pointed and took whatever came to the table.

Costs were about the same as Spain.  The weather continued to get cooler as I headed north up the coast.  One night near Lisbon, unable to find a hostal, I spent my last night in the tent.  It was pretty chilly and not very comfortable.  My ¨faithful¨ Thermarest air mattress has developed an interesting bulge.  If I want to be comfortable, I have to sleep on the bulge to force air into the rest of the mattress.  By morning, I feel like a contortionist.  Camping out in Europe really helped my budget but I´ll be happy to sleep in a regular bed from now on.

I must be running out of tourist steam because I only took a few pictures.  The rural scenes in Portugal are beautiful and the whitewashed hill towns are beautiful.  I meant to take a picture of a cork tree but never found the right one.  After only four days I was back in Spain and on the final leg of my trip.

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